We performed a comparison between MikroTik Cloud Router Switch and NETGEAR Switches based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Ethernet Switches solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is user-friendly, reliable, and cheap."
"It is easy to set up."
"The wiki page that describes the scripting and other features is very good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The beauty of MikroTik is that you have flexibility with the routing parts."
"Some of the most valuable features are the simplicity, cost, usability, and power. As a package, it's extremely effective."
"This solution is very similar to the on-premises version making it easy to use for those who know the architect."
"The interface management and the user access management is pretty good."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"You are not limited in terms of stacking ports, and especially, if you're using the 96X as a core switch, the scalability, I could see this being very large. If you're using a type of a hybrid topology with a core switch going out to multiple switch stacks, or something like that, I could see the scalability of this being very good, especially considering the kind of backplane switching capacity on the 96X."
"SFP, speed, and 10-Gigabit are the most valuable aspects of this solution. We're an architecture firm and we sometimes deal with large files. Anything we can do to eke out even a fraction of a second less time to get something done over the course of a year adds up. If I can get 10-Gigabit running in my server room, which I am right now, even though we're only gigabit to the desktop, due to the client computers we have, I can get more performance from everybody. I'm ready to start bringing in 10-Gigabit Ethernet to the desktop once I get the hardware to do that."
"Technical support is helpful and quick to respond."
"The solution is very powerful and versatile."
"Comes preconfigured and designed specifically for AV."
"The solution is reliable and it is easy to setup."
"If MikroTik had a marketing team and support team in India then it would be much easier for us to get the product, as well as support."
"There has to be more development in the OS. It's complex for this switch as compared to others like Cisco. For NetGear and Cisco, it's easy to adapt the VLAN concept but it should be simplified for MikroTik."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution does not yet offer a SaaS version."
"Improvements are needed with respect to some of the security, especially for VPN links between vendors other than Cisco."
"In medium to large sectors, there's a necessity for managing aspects like proxy firewalls."
"Antispam and antivirus features should be included in the future."
"Stuff that I'd like to be improved is really just training and documentation because I think the feature set is full. Another improvement I'd suggest is that their new, bigger releases should be a bit more stable."
"There is a lack of documentation, and the documentation I have is unclear, so I have to rely on Google for information."
"The IGMP specifics of the web management console could use a bit of clarification."
"One area that has room for improvement, and I know NETGEAR is working on it, is adding more features to the products lines in terms of what we can manage through the Insight portal... not all Layer 2 or Layer 3 settings are there yet."
"Lacks switches with additional ports that provide room for new protocols of communications."
"Being able to pass AVB traffic over these switches, that would be a huge add. There are not many switches out that support that. The GS728TP NETGEAR switches used to or still do support AVB, but it would be ideal if the 4300 Series could support it as well."
"The web interface has been a little sketchy on occasion. Sometimes I have to reload the page to get things to show up properly, but the switch itself seems fine. The web user interface is a little wonky at times."
"The ‘how-to’ guides could do with some improvements. We got in trouble following the stacking and Dante set-up guides. If these would have been accurate, we would not have lost three days."
"Their old firmware was a problem for us and we're still working on it. It didn't apply correctly so it took about half of our switches offline, which meant we couldn't use some of the functionality like the firmware updates. Unfortunately with that firmware, which they've sorted out, if you don't go through all the firmware and make sure it's past that point and back online, that's an issue with them. It's something to cautious about"
MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is ranked 15th in Ethernet Switches with 17 reviews while NETGEAR Switches is ranked 4th in Ethernet Switches with 50 reviews. MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is rated 8.0, while NETGEAR Switches is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MikroTik Cloud Router Switch writes "Easy to set up, user-friendly, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETGEAR Switches writes "You can stack different models of switches which makes the scalability great". MikroTik Cloud Router Switch is most compared with MikroTik Routers and Switches, Netgate TNSR, Huawei Enterprise Routers, Arista Networks Platform and Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, whereas NETGEAR Switches is most compared with D-Link Ethernet Switches, Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches, Ubiquiti UniFi Switches, Cisco Ethernet Switches and MikroTik Routers and Switches. See our MikroTik Cloud Router Switch vs. NETGEAR Switches report.
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